This document summarizes an inclusive employee experience webinar hosted by AbilityNet. The webinar discussed challenges to providing an inclusive employee experience in the finance and insurance sector, with a panel featuring representatives from Lloyds Banking Group and GAIN. Audience members asked the panelists questions about barriers to employment for disabled people, their organizations' approaches to inclusion and accessibility, changes since the pandemic, initiatives to facilitate inclusive working, ensuring accessibility of digital environments, and the benefits of neuroinclusion in the workplace. The document also promoted upcoming webinars and training from AbilityNet on digital accessibility and building disability-inclusive workplaces.
Inclusive employee experience in the finance and insurance sector
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Inclusive employee experience in the
finance and insurance sector
Ross Hovey, Accessibility Manager, Lloyds Banking Group
Vina Theodorakopoulou, Individual Members Lead, GAIN
Teresa Loftus, Senior Workplace and Education Inclusion Consultant at
AbilityNet (Host)
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Welcome
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• Additional captions: www.streamtext.net/player?event=AbilityNet
• Slides are available: www.slideshare.net/abilitynet
• Notes, transcript and recording: www.abilitynet.org.uk/finance-
insurance-webinar
• Feedback form for post-webinar questions
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About AbilityNet
• AbilityNet are a charity that use technology to help transform the
lives of disabled people, at home, at work and in education.
• Accessibility testing and training
• Workplace Consultancy and Assessments
• Education Consultancy and DSA Assessments
• Free services – IT and accessibility help at home and online
resources, blogs, events and webinars
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Audience poll
What are the main challenges to providing
an inclusive employee experience?
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Survey results
When asked "What do you think are some key barriers that are
preventing progress in this area?"
• Lack of awareness of inclusive employee experience
• Lack of budget / no budget for external support
• No or low senior involvement in disability
awareness/inclusion
• Lack of understanding of business case / benefits
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Survey results
How disability inclusive is the finance and insurance sector for
employees?
• 22% said 'more inclusive' than other sectors
• 61% said 'the same' as other sectors
• 16% said 'less than' other sectors
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Survey results
How disability inclusive is the finance and insurance sector to its
customers?
• 33% said 'more inclusive' than other sectors
• 44% said 'the same' as other sectors
• 22% said 'less than' other sectors
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Question (1): Barriers
What are the barriers
to employment, for
disabled and
neurodiverse
people?
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Question (2): Inclusion and accessibility
How does your
organisation
approach
inclusion and
accessibility for
staff?
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Question (3): Covid-19
Have there been any
significant changes
since the pandemic?
How do employees
create a disability
inclusive working
environment?
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Question (4): Initiatives
What are some
employee
initiatives that
facilitate inclusive
and accessible
working?
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Question (5): Digital environment
What is done to
ensure accessibility
and inclusion of the
digital environment?
What is the value of
procuring accessible
internal systems?
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Question (6): Benefits of neuroinclusivisim
Why should
organisations help you
to create neuroinclusive
workplaces?
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• 6 April: Introduction to Digital Accessibility - Free
• 19 April: How to build a disability inclusive workplace – Free
• 20 April: Embedding accessibility at every stage of your project
Book now: www.abilitynet.org.uk/training
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Training
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• AbilityNet newsletter: abilitynet.org.uk/newsletter
• Disability inclusion Gap Analysis service: abilitynet.org.uk/
workplace/gap-analysis
• Next webinars: abilitynet.org.uk/webinars
• Multiple Sclerosis: How technology can support you – 25th April
• Coming soon Don’t Disable Me, a Public Sector focus, in May
Thank you
Notes de l'éditeur
Teresa:
A little bit about AbilityNet, who we are and what we do:
We are a technology charity whose vision is a digital world accessible to all.
We work towards this vision via a number of activities:
Accessibility testing and training
Workplace Consultancy and Assessments
Education Consultancy and DSA Assessments
Free services – through IT and accessibility help at home and online resources, blogs, events and webinars
We know that accessibility can feel like a complicated topic, and certainly when I joined AbilityNet it felt like a huge amount to learn but actually when you get into it it becomes more and more straightforward and easy to get right.